RC meeting and Run Plan, Friday Oct. 20, 2023

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RC Meeting Information

Time: Monday - Friday at 3:30pm

• Location: Counting house conference room

• ZoomGov Meeting Connection Information

https://sbs.jlab.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/private/ShowDocument?docid=431

Useful Links

• MCC White Board
• CEBAF status
• Accelerator Status

Procedures

Hall A call-in instructions:

• Call RC first.
• Techs on site 7am-4:30pm Mon-Thu, 7-11am Fri. RC will call Hall A work coordinator (Zach) during normal working hours. After hours, RC calls Tech on-call.
• After 9pm everything non-emergency needs to be deferred. What is emergency and what's not? Call RC. RC talks with Mark to decide.

Hall Access procedure:

• Access check list (binder on the counting room desk) needs to be filled out before making an access.
• Scan (take pictures with phone) and post it to the logbook.
• Any work inside the SBS, BB boundary need to have PS locked out -- requires two QEWs to throw the big switch. Exception: field measurements.

New instruction for shift crew when changing target:

• Beam restoration instructions have been updated. Printed version is in the counting room.
• When we change target, make sure the SOFs of Target BPMs are set to the correct values.
• SOFs for different targets: Needs an update after restoring beam tonight (Note: SOFs for major target positions are on the Control Room whiteboard.)

Status Update

Overall Summary

General

• Sieve came out and the end of day shift
  • Early analysis of data suggests we have enough stats to be useful for GEM alignment
• Beam Checkout/Production procedure started early in swing
  • Data showed issue with HCal TDC but was unclear if software or hardware issue
  • Decided to wait until morning and verify that it was not a software issue overnight
  • Escorted access this morning to replace distribution board
  • Seems to look ok now - (https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/4203728)
• NMR at 11:30 had weird side peaks on the bottom two plots (https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/4203757)
  • Had to take a second NMR at this time, looked better - 45.8%
  • 14:30 NMR 48.9 %

• High power test of the accelerator scheduled for Monday 10/23 from 9 am - 1 pm
  • Beam expected to be very trippy, PD requests we have a plan now if we want glass in the beam during this time or not
  • By this they mean do we want to put the sieve in again or not
• GEn received another 1 week extension, now runs through 10/31
  • A_LL shifted 1 week, no runtime impacted

Shift Plan

• Production Data

Beam

• Beam down ~6 hours between 9 pm and 3 am

Opportunistically between spin ups (?):

• H2 Reference data

Accelerator status

• Maintenace Day Wednesday 10/25

• If you want to get into the hall, please communicate with the RC to get this organized!

Data collected :

• 0.847 C with HCal TDC issue
• 0.411 C since HCal fix up to 3 pm

Hall A Subsystems Status

Target

• Laser power and alignment were adjusted Wednesday, pol ~47% in beam
• Had an NMR issue at 11:30 and had to retake a 2nd one

Detectors

• HCal (Jiwan Poudel)
  • TDC Update
• Bigbite (Arun Tadepalli)
  • Mostly good (Provakar)
  • SC 18-19 missing
• DAQ (Alex Camsonne)
• GEMs (Holly Szumila-Vance)
  • Mostly good (Andrew)
  • SBS Layer 2 hole
• Grinch
  • Looks fine (Eric)
• Hodoscopes (Rachel Montgomery):
  • Looks fine (Gary)

Magnets

• SBS and BB are on.

Hall access requests

If anyone wants to make an access, let the RC know!

Sub Systems

• SBS magnet and Bigbite magnets
  • work as expected
• Corrector magnets:
  • work as expected
• Target status (magnets, measurements, laser, installation, alignment, polarization, power etc)
• HCal (Jiwan Poudel)
  • TDC Update
• Bigbite (Arun Tadepalli)
  • Mostly good
  • SC 18-19 missing
• DAQ (Alex Camsonne)
• GEMs (Holly Szumila-Vance)
  • Mostly good
  • SBS Layer 2 hole
• Grinch
  • Looks fine
• Hodoscopes (Rachel Montgomery):
  • Looks fine

Shift schedule

IMMINENT OPEN SHIFTS

• Saturday 10/21 DAY (Target Operator, trade requested)

Please check when your shifts are!

https://misportal.jlab.org/mis/physics/shiftSchedule/?experimentRunId=SBS-GEn-2022

Please sign up for any open shifts!

Running Plan

• Standard production running at 45uA, with NMRs every 3 hours.

==> List of items in case He3 production running isn’t ready:

1. Take data on reference cell at 10 atm H2 [85% (4200 elastic events) more data required for Bigbite momentum calibration]
2. BigBite/single foil location reconstruction (~20 mins?) - BigBite + HCAL detector experts on call consulting analysis experts like Andrew/Sean (magnet on) (? is this different than the optics runs?)